@PV
I don't want to continue this fight
Maybe someday, when you are in a better mood, try informing yourself about world economy and the impact on local social structures. You
may notice, that there is enough food on this earth for everyone. There is just something wrong with it's allocation. Actually it is very likely, that the rice you click for is produced in a country, where people starve to death too. Nowadays food is traded like every other good in stock markets. We buy cheap food from third world countries and feed our swine with it or burn it in stoves. There is a multitude of things you can do about it. But you have to get
active. Clicking for free rice(I searched on the UN site for free rice and didn't find anything) is just not active enough, if you ask me. Now you will say but it is at least
something and then I will say, no it isn't.
Edit:
There is also a situation the other way around. For example tomato farmers in South Africa are becoming bankrup because of cheaper imported tomatos from Europe. The reason for the tomatos being cheaper is, that the European farmers get subventions from their governments. Now, if the tomato prices increase, the local famers will have given up their farms and the people will have to buy expensive imported tomatos. The United Nations initiatives for local development address those problems directly. Personally I think, that joining forces and getting politically active is much more effective than doing scattershots.
Last but not least, if free rice gives the rice to poor people to let them survive, it's a great thing. But thinking about the background that leads to the starving of those people, it looks like the system that exploits those people just gives them back some breadkrumbs and says "Look here, we do something against poverty". When I view the whole picture from outside it looks kind of like the bitterest irony I've seen in my life, so far.
